Do you buy fairtrade?

Question

or is reducing your food miles more important? Both are good ethical ways of shopping. What are your views please?

Fair trade is just an agreement that farmers in the developing world will recieve a decent wage for the products they sell.

Answer 1

no sorry I don't, my husband does my shopping, although I have gone to a restaurant which only serves fair trade drinks, and I have bought fair trade chocolate when it first arrived on the scene, it was very good.

But since my health problems, I don't get out and about as much as I like.

Answer 2

I shop a lot in the co-op, and much of their fairtrade stuff is actually very cheap. The problem is chioce most of the time. I get coffee, tea, sugar, wine, chocolate and biscuits. None of which are much more expensive at all (wine is cheaper and nicer), normaly only a few pence more. But they don't really sell much else thats fairtrade, at least not in the one near me.

When I go to bigger supermarkets like Tesco, the veg etc is much more expensive, and I just cant afford it.

I do go to local farmers markets and the groccers and they are better on price and taste, but its having the time do get to places like that, it can be hard at times.

P.S. I love cafedirect instant coffe, best I have found. And co-op and threshers wine seem very good too.

Answer 3

Hi do you know what I would love to but the fairtrade stuff is usually very expensive than the cheap stuff I usually buy. I suppose if I eventually get rich then I can buy them. I feel really sorry for the poor workers that slave away for nothing.
I think I will try and start buying stuff fair trade. I do buy the fair trade grapes, There isnt many supermarkets that do fair trade. I notice morrisons are good for it, but I dont know about ASDA or Tesco as I can only usually see the coffee but I dont drink coffee so I dont buy it anyways,.

Answer 4

Shop at my local organic greengrocers, mostly buying local produce and fairtrade stuff when i can't get what I need locally. Farmers markets only happen here every couple of months, but always go when they are on. Its a balance though, if we didn't buy the stuff produced in the poorer parts of the world then the farmers would get even less. We need to ensure we support schemes that help people grow the kind of produce that they need locally. Not tobacco etc!!

Answer 5

Yes I do the Co-op does a good range of fairtrade products and I tehd to go for these before others

Answer 6

I try and buy food produced in the UK or fair trade but money and the options available sometimes mean I don't as much as I would like. Its difficult when you are on a tight budget but I would like more locally produced food available, maybe farmers markets etc. I do live in a market town but the supermarket killed it off!

Answer 7

yes I do
you can now buy a good range, of ' fair trade ' goods ,
so i buy what i can ,
It is good to know, that we are buying good stuff ,
and helping the people that supply
,to us , in the Third World ,at the same time .

I also support local grown, food products
No spraying , no artificial fertilisers or pesticides
I include ,' Kind Farming '
Eg; free range , none intensive , naturally reared ., humanely killed , animals and fish .

>^,,^<

Answer 8

I have no idea what you mean by "fairtrade" I shop close to my home but I live on an island so there are not too many options.

Answer 9

I do try to buy fairtrade unless the price is ridiculously high

Answer 10

yes i buy fairtrade chocolate an I've even tried wine , it was nice I'm going to suggest to my friends to start buying the wine, i think this will catch on good, it's about time .